On Graphic Scholarship: A Conversation with Nick Sousanis

oleh: Kay Sohini

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Open Library of Humanities 2022-04-01

Deskripsi

Nick Sousanis is the author of Unflattening, one of the first doctoral dissertations to be drawn as a comic and subsequently published by Harvard University Press in 2015. Unflattening has arguably inspired a generation of dissertations that use comics as a medium, including my own “Drawing Unbelonging” (Sohini, forthcoming). In this interview, I talked to Nick about comics as scholarship, using visual metaphors, illustrative versus generative images, and what to read when struck by the dreaded creator’s block.